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DESCRIPTION:Nancy S. Steinhardt will present at the Global Middle\nAges Sem
inar on Wednesday\, October 18\, at 6 pm. Her talk is entitled “When\nMusl
ims Die in China.”China had a\nmultimillennial tradition of building tombs
replete with burial goods before\nIslam came to China in the Tang dynasty
(618–907). Muslim burial was by\ncontrast modest: without grave goods\, a
nd if a tomb was marked\, the sign was a\nsimple stone or cenotaph. This t
alk investigates how practicing Muslims who\ndied in China were buried. It
begins with graves of merchants who were part of\nflourishing internation
al communities in port cities during the Song dynasty\n(960–1279). These t
ombs are contrasted with a tomb argued to belong to the\nBuddhist convert
to Islam in Guyuan\, Hebei province\, in 1307\, during the period\nof Mong
olian rule. Steinhardt then turns to tombs of two Muslim kings\, from\nBor
neo and the Philippines\, who died in China in the early years of the\nfif
teenth century. The strikingly different tombs are an opportunity to asses
s\nthe convergence or lack of convergence of Chinese and Muslim practice a
s\nreflections of the political backdrop of three consecutive periods in C
hinese\nhistory.\n\nNancy S.\nSteinhardt is Professor of East\nAsian Art a
nd Curator of Chinese Art at the University of\nPennsylvania. She was a Ju
nior Fellow in the Society of Fellows at Harvard\nfrom 1978 to 1981. She i
s author or co-author of Chinese Traditional\nArchitecture (1984)\, Chines
e Imperial City Planning (1990)\, Liao\nArchitecture (1997)\, Chinese Arch
itecture (2003)\, Reader\nin Traditional Chinese Culture (2005)\, Chinese
Architecture\nand the Beaux-Arts (2011)\, Chinese Architecture in an Age o
f\nTurmoil\, 200–600 (2014)\, China’s Early Mosques (2015)\, Traditional\n
Chinese Architecture: Twelve Lectures (2017)\, and more\nthan 100 scholarl
y articles or essays. Chinese Architecture: A\nHistory and The Borders of
Chinese Architecture are\nunder contract. In 2014 Steinhardt gave the Reis
chauer Lectures at Harvard. She\nhas received grants from the Guggenheim F
oundation\, Institute for Advanced\nStudy\, Center for Advanced Study in t
he Visual Arts\, National Endowment for the\nHumanities\, American Council
of Learned Societies\, Getty Foundation\, Chiang\nChing-kuo Foundation\,
Social Science Research Council\, American Philosophical\nSociety\, Graham
Foundation for Advanced Study in the Fine Arts (2)\, Van Berchem\nFoundat
ion\, Metropolitan Center for Far Eastern Art\, American Numismatic\nSocie
ty\, and Fulbright-Hays. She has given more than 350 public lectures or\nc
onference talks\, and more than ten named lecture series including the\nRe
ischauer Lectures at Harvard in 2014. She is on six editorial boards.Stein
hardt has\nbroad research interests in the art\, architecture\, and archae
ology of China\,\nKorea\, Japan\, and Mongolia from the second through fou
rteenth centuries. She\nhas done fieldwork in all four countries. She\nhas
been an advisor\, guest curator\, or author for exhibitions at China\nIns
titute\, Asia Society\, the Metropolitan Museum\, Japan Society\, Chicago
Art\nInstitute\, the Smart Museum\, and the Penn Museum.\n\nThis event wil
l be\nlivestreamed. Please check back the day of the event for a link to\n
the video. To watch videos of past events please visit our YouTube page.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: When Muslims Die in China
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